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The Koran shows every sign of being thrown together by human beings, as do all the other holy books.

Christopher Hitchens

The discovery there is no god is a great relief, because if there were, it would be like living in a celestial North Korea if there was one. You would never be able to escape.
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Discover Escape God Greatness Oneself
Never be a spectator of unfairness or stupidity. Seek out argument and disputation for their own sake; the grave will supply plenty of time for silence.
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Argument Fair Grave Seek Silence Stupidity
I leave it to the faithful to burn each other’s churches and mosques and synagogues, which they can be always relied upon to do.
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Each Other Faith Leaving Myself
Take the risk of thinking for yourself.
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Risk Self Love Thinking Yourself
I’m not afraid of being dead, that’s to say there’s nothing to be afraid of. I won’t know I’m dead, would be my strong conviction. And if I find that I’m alive in any way at all, that’ll be a pleasant surprise. I quite like surprises.
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Afraid Death Myself Quite Strong
Take the risk of thinking for yourself. Much more happiness, truth, beauty and wisdom will come to you that way.
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Happiness Risk Thinking Truth Way Yourself
Time spent arguing with the faithful is, oddly enough, almost never wasted.
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Argument Enough Faith Time Wasted Time
The person who is certain, and who claims divine warrant for his certainty, belongs now to the infancy of our species.
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Certain Divine Infant Ourselves Person
The violence in the Bible is appalling.
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One Liner Religion Violence
So there’s nothing more vulgar than the sound of someone saying, God Bless America, someone who doesn’t really believe it, but he thinks it will make him look good to other people. I think it’s the most nauseating spectacle.
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Appearance Believe Myself Sound Talk Thinking
To the dumb question, ‘Why me?’ the cosmos barely bothers to return the reply, ‘Why not?’
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Cosmos Inspirational Question Return
Religion is poison because it asks us to give up our most precious faculty, which is that of reason, and to believe things without evidence. It then asks us to respect this, which it calls faith.
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Evidence Faith Give Up Ourselves Poison Reason Religion Respect
Islamophobia: a word created by fascists, and used by cowards, to manipulate morons.
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Coward Creation Religion Word
Even if I accepted that Jesus – like almost every other prophet on record – was born of a virgin, I cannot think that this proves the divinity of his father or the truth of his teachings. The same would be true if I accepted that he had been resurrected.
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Acceptance Divine Father Himself Record Truth
It’s called faith because it’s not knowledge.
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Faith Knowledge Wisdom
Human beings are pattern-seeking animals who will prefer even a bad theory or a conspiracy theory to no theory at all.
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Human Pattern Seek Theory Willing

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